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Hi edoderoo. This is Bengt Nyman talking about nominations for deletion of some of my images: Why Edoderoo ?? Other People have been uploading my images from my Flickr site (>250) to Wikimedia Commons for years. Why should my own uploading require a different license ?? Please explain yourself. ALSO: Please do not send me messages from an email address that do not accept answers !! Bengt Nyman

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Hi Edoderoo... you apparently treated this ticket, but it is not in a Permissions queue - could you please move it as appropriate? Thank you, Storkk (talk) 09:14, 10 May 2017 (UTC)

The ticket is in the info-nl::wikiportret queue, where we handle (and usually keep) all our wikiportet-related images. In which queue would you prefer it, and for what reason? Edoderoo (talk) 09:23, 10 May 2017 (UTC)

Commons OTRS agents have to be able to check the OTRS tickets for media on Commons regardless of which external queues they have permissions for, so it is my understanding that best practice involves moving tickets to Permissions-commons after they have been dealt with. For this specific image, could you please confirm that it was explicitly declared to be a self-portrait? Thanks, Storkk (talk) 09:35, 10 May 2017 (UTC)

We have thousands of images in this wikiportret-queue, and even if I move them to permissions-nl I'm afraid you still can not see the ticket(s). So if you believe this is an issue, you better have that discussion at a higher level in the hierarchie, as I do not believe we are going to manually move every ticket once it has been dealt with by the Dutch agents.

About the selfie. Yes, the user declared undoubedly that it is a selfie, altough it didn't look like one at first sight. It might be that the user is not telling us the truth, because the user wanted this image to be uploaded in order to replace another image he didn't like. But we didn't know this yet, when the image was uploaded, that turned out later on in the process. Right now the article has no image at all, because the same user kept deleting the image on the article "based on portrait right", although there ain't no portret right as such in The Netherlands that can prevent Wikipedia from displaying a decent photo. Edoderoo (talk) 09:59, 10 May 2017 (UTC)

This is now tangential, but any idea why they uploaded the photo in the first place, then? And why nlwiki is allowing a user to repeatedly remove an image from an article? Very strange.

At first they wanted another image, but their uploaded image was reverted because the other one was better according to the community. Now we have two images under a free license, and none of them are shown right now. But anyone can place them back, and at some moment that will be done, I expect. Edoderoo (talk) 12:38, 10 May 2017 (UTC)

With regards to the ultimate location of tickets for permissions of Commons-hosted media, this has been discussed many times in the past with regards to different queues. I don't want to step on your collective toes, though, and if it relates to thousands of tickets, this should indeed probably be discussed at a higher level, perhaps moving wikiportret from an info-nl subqueue to a permissions subqueue. I will start a discussion on OTRSwiki and ping you there. Storkk (talk) 12:32, 10 May 2017 (UTC)

The author has sent his permission to upload them on 13 May. I can't understand why the case has not yet been processed while others, more recent ones, are quickly processed.--Eckhardt Etheling (talk) 12:37, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

It seems that the permission at OTRS is sufficient, but you need a sysop to restore the files, and I'm not a sysop at OTRS (the two times I applied for this it was denied, because the other sysops believed I was too inactive?). I can not handle this for you, so you'll need to get in touch with a user that is a sysop as well. Edoderoo (talk) 15:35, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

Ok, thank you, I will ask an OTRS volunteer & sysop to restore the files. Could you check ticket:2018042710011656 and ticket:2018042710011549? These are already uploaded and do not need to be restored.--Eckhardt Etheling (talk) 17:15, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

The first one is missing some important past in the declaration: that the website is the holder of the full copyright, and/or photographer/creator of the images. Now it is not sure if the website just has a license to use the images, or if they made the pictures themselves, but for the release of the images this is always important. The best way to get a good declaration is to use the template on Commons:OTRS#Declaration_of_consent_for_all_enquiries, so we are also sure that the person releasing the rights on the images clearly understands what they are actually releasing. This will avoid discussions afterwards, when people 'suddenly' do not want others to edit the photo's, or that they are used in a commercial setting. The text in the link will make that all clear. The second ticket I read as I am the owner, although the text is actually multi-interpretable. For those few images I have put the ticket number to the images. Edoderoo (talk) 17:34, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

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Fixed, thanks for letting me know. Every once in a while I forget to copy/paste this info, and it doesn't help that it is usually just outside sight one line below the visible area of the edit window. But it's fairly easy (for me) to find back the right ticket and fill it in. Edoderoo (talk) 20:07, 29 July 2018 (UTC)

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